The Historia covers the period from 1118 to 1207, and is noteworthy for its description of the occupation of Constantinople, an excerpt in English can be read here: https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/source/choniates1.asp
Although technically an incense burner, this container was used from at least 1283 to hold the relic of the Holy Blood, which had been sent to Venice from Constantinople. Although the later addition of the crosses to the domes give the reliquary the…
Literally “Golden Pall” or “Golden Cloth”, the Pala d’Oro is the retable of the high alter at the Basilica di San Marco in Venice. It measures 3 meters wide by 2 meters tall and features a total of 187 enamel plaques along with numerous precious and…
This plate was found in Siberia. The central scene shows the Ascension of Alexander the Great, surrounded by decorative imagery and motifs. This story was popular in Byzantine and Romanesque art, as well as in Islamic Art in Asia Minor.
Given by Latin Emperor Baldwin II to King Louis IX of France, among others including the Image of Edessa, arrived in Paris in August 1239 for the sum of 135,000 livres. The Saint-Chapelle was built to house these (pawned) relics from Constantinople,…
Shows the emperor seated on a backless throne, wearing the loros and a crown and holding a labarum and a globus cruciger, the inscription encircling him reads: Balduinus Dei gratia imp(er)at[or] Ro[maniae] se[mp(er) au]gu(stus)? (Baldwin, by the…